“The Life of a Showgirl” is now Billboard’s biggest album debut since Adele’s “25” in 2015, though some critics have accused Swift of gaming the system by releasing 38 variants of the album between physical copies and digital versions.
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Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” sold 3,479,500 copies and garnered 522,600 additional units from streams, Billboard reported Monday, marking the largest sales week since Luminate began tracking album sales in 1991.
